I guess you already knew since your phone is working.

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    7 months ago

    if you watched the video, your last point seems to be demonstrably untrue, as what hit us this week, the video author is saying, was the same size and category 5 solar emission that The Carrington Event was, and we didn’t experience any disruption to our satelites, or electrical grid at all, probably because we were prepared for it, which is as interesting as it gets

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      7 months ago

      Just like all storms, the geomagnetic storm scale is imperfect. It maxes out at G5, so it’s possible for a substantially worse storm to be in the same category as what we saw last weekend.

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      7 months ago

      The 2003 event produced the biggest-ever solar flare ever measured, an X45. That year, several BIG transformers exploded in South Africa. This event’s biggest so is 8.7. A lot depends on where it’s aimed at … but anyway , no, we are not prepared.